The real one – the one where you can visit Play Store (or their alternatives), download the apps/games and start playing. Not simulator, not Windows skinning, not for developers to try their apps and games. And luckily as well, there’s a handful of great Android Emulators out there. Most of apps and games available on Apple iOS and its App Store are luckily also available for Android platform. 1) iOS Emulator – The FREE Alternative – for PC/Mac users. That really depends on what you are really looking for? If your main intention is to play commercial iOS games or to run commercial iOS apps, then don’t sweat to try finding iOS emulators, but instead take a look at these alternatives. So what are the iOS emulator alternatives we have here? It’s a GUI based on Eclipse, for developers to create their own apps/games for iOS. The Best iOS Emulator: Smartface – works only if you have apps/games developed with Smartfaceģ) MobiOne Studio is just like Smartface. So, Smartface is not really an iOS emulator that you are looking for. And what’s more, the iOS emulator only works with apps/games that YOU are developing with Smartface. You know the difference between emulator and simulator right? The Best iOS Emulator: iPadian – nothing but a Windows skin with web-based appsĢ) Smartface is a GUI for mobile app development, which requires you to have the actual iOS device to run the iOS emulator.

That’s why even the official website (screenshot below), come with “the best iOS simulator” tagging and not “emulator”.

To be specifics:ġ) iPadian – to me – is nothing but a skin for your Windows PC. Like I said, they are not real iOS emulator. What about iPadian, Smartface, MobiOne Studio, etc? It’s mainly due to Apple closed ecosystem, and on top of it, potential legal issues since hey, it’s Apple! They will pursue anybody, any organizations whose and/or which violating its intellectual properties (remember disputes between Samsung and Apple that runs for very long time), plus another big reason why until today there’s no real iOS emulator is because there’s easy alternatives out there. iOS Emulator – no REAL iOS emulator available so far.

Not the one you think of – the one where you can start the commercial apps or games just by tapping on it. There’s no real iOS emulator until today! Period. They are either fake iOS emulator, or just an iOS simulator, or iOS IDE/GUI for developing iOS apps/games and some can contains malicious codes to steal/block/harm your PC/Mac/Android data. If you run across Google and find something related to iOS emulators, I’m telling you, for your own safety, try to stay away from those things. Don’t be disappointed folks but until today there isn’t any REAL Apple iOS emulator to run iOS apps and/or to play iOS games.

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